Dirty Harry on the Big Screen!

 

Cinemark Theaters will be showing Dirty Harry as part of their Classic Series on November 3rd and 6th! Go see it if you fell lucky enough.  Well do you punk?!

Bane as Elton John?

Actor Tom Hardy(Dark Knight Rises, Mad Max: Fury Road) has been selected to play Elton John in a new biopic coming in the near future.  Doe this look about right?

October Rocks!

 

Pumpkin beer, candy corn, and horror movies make October awesome.  In any order of course.

Movie Poster Wednesday- A Nightmare on Elm Street 2

Freddy vs. Jason, Kinda?

New Release Tuesday

I like director James Wan's work as Saw I, Dead Silence, and Insidious are great little horror movies that are not in your face splatter movies but rather a slow burn horror movie where he lets the tension build.  Cannot wait to check this as this scored critically and financially.

No thanks.  How about a Wedding Crashers sequel instead?

This set has 6 classic Price movies and it has The Abominable Dr. Phibes!  This is from Scream Factory so it will rock!

A documentary about DC bad guys.  Sounds good. Insights from famed creators and storytellers, including Zack Snyder,Guillermo del Toro, Jim Lee, Geoff Johns and Richard Donner, shine a fascinating light on those malevolent, charismatic characters who thrive in the dark.

Movie Poster Tuesday- Captain America: Winter Soldier

Pancake Saturday

On Saturdays I usually serve up pancakes for breakfast and then reflect on what happened that week.  Think of it like my scatter shooting of the week.  Here is what I have in the barrel this week:

*I am not sure why everyone is shocked over Nolan Ryan's retirement/ resignation, depending who in the Ranger hierarchy you ask.  The guy was not happy about his role change that happened last November, let everyone know about that dislike in March and then went silent until a press conference before this last season started.  He and general manager Jon Daniels showed they had a relationship that was working on the outside but apparently that was not the case on the inside.  The business side of the team were split into two halves (Nolan's people, Daniel's people) and turns out that division has been hurting the team.  I love Nolan Ryan and I hate to say this but it was time for him to go.  He was not happy and Daniels was the one that has created all the success this team has had the last few years.  The team won 91 games this past season and just missed the post season.  I will take that season any day.  I have been a Ranger fan since 1987 and I remember when 81-81 was considered a good season around here.  Now Daniels is responsible for  not replacing any of the offense lost this past off season (Hamilton, Napoli, and Young) and hopefully he will go get some bats this off season.  I will miss you Nolan.

*Cooler weather, football, pumpkin beer, candy corn, and horror movies are what makes Octobers awesome!

*Went to the Texas State Fair last week.  Still a great time with a new Big Tex and corn dogs.

*One thing in football that really bugs me now in College or pro is why do all receivers look for a penalty flag on every play where the ball is thrown to them?  You cannot catch them all and the defensive backs have a right to the ball too.

*Why is renaming the Washington Redskins an issue?  There were established in 1932 and Native American rights groups have gone on record saying that they have bigger and better issues to take care of or worry about than the name of a professional football team owned by a billionaire.  Bob Costas: After your gun rant last season and now your Redskin rant this past Sunday you have proved one thing,  You are an idiot.

*Have a good weekend.

Movie Poster Friday- Friday the 13th Part II

New Release Tuesday

It's giant robots against giant monsters.  What's not to like here?  Director Guillermo Del Toro has crafted a fantastic story here that is a great throw back to the old Godzilla and monster movies of yesteryear.  This movie is a lot of fun and if you like Sons of Anarchy you get some Charlie Hunnam and Ron Perlman love in this.  Cannot wait to see Del Toro's next movie, Crimson Peak.

I like these two ladies a lot and this was the sleeper hit of the summer so I cannot wait to check this out.

Holy cow!  Universal finally releases a Clint Eastwood movie on to blu ray.  Clint plays a drifter who wonders into a town.  This town has 3 outlaws returning home for some revenge so it turns to the drifter who shows off some gun fighting skills for help.  The townsfolk practically promise Clint that he can have anything he wants in return for said help.  Clint turns the town into hell and we later find out why he did it.  Great western and it is also directed by Eastwood.

The last great John Carpenter movie, for so far I hope.  Sam Neill plays an investigator on the look out for a missing author, a Stephen King like author let's say.  When Neill gets too close to where the author may be he becomes engulfed by the author's work and then the creepy stuff begins.  Great horror flick.  I hope we see this John Carpenter again some day.

This is Mr. and Mrs. Gauntlet's favorite Christmas movie.  Now don't go gather the kids and all sit around to watch this as this is the holiday movie you watch after Elf and the kids go to bed.  A very funny, sometimes sad, and charming little Brit movie that inter weaves many characters and proves all you need is love.

Movie Poster Thursday- Grudge Match

R.I.P. Ed Lauter 1930-2013

We lost another great character actor.  Ed Lauter started out in the theater and then made his way to TV in the early 70s.  Ed then quickly graduated to the movies with The Magnificent Seven Ride and then began a career of alternating TV and movie work for the next 40 years.  I remember him from movies like Hickey and Boggs, The Longest Yard, Satan’s Triangle, King Kong, Timerider, Cujo, and True Romance.  He must have been good buddies with Charles Bronson because they starred together in The White Buffalo, Death Hunt, Breakhart Pass, and my personal fave Death Wish 3.

Ed was in about every popular TV show you can think of from the 70s, 80s, and even some from the 90s.  I recently saw Ed in 2012’s Trouble with the Curve and realized I had not seen him in anything in awhile.  Great actor and he will be missed.

Movie Poster Sunday- Child's Play 2

New Release Tuesday

Chucky is back and that is a good thing.  Writer/director Don Mancini has written or co-written all of the Child's Play movies and has now directed the last two Chucky features.  This is one of the few series where you can say it has gotten better over time especially with the last two with Mancini at the helm.  Curse of Chucky leaves the comedy behind and gets back to straight horror as Chucky just shows up in the mail sporting a new look and then the trouble starts.  Brad Dourif returns as the voice of Chucky and I must say this movie is really good and is a lot of fun.  Too bad this did not score a theatrical release and I am going on record now that this is one of the best direct to DVD movies you will ever see.  Highly recommend. 

Wow, it has been a long time since I have checked this out.  A diplomat is nearly killed and a submarine and its crew are shrunken down and sent into his blood stream to save him.  There they incur the wraith of the human body.

The first was mediocre, the second was a retread, and the third will not fool me.  Pass.

This Summer dud had disaster written on it before release.  The Smiths continue to whore themselves out for money and Scientology.  Bad scripts finally caught up to the golden boy as I bet he actually reads the next one before worrying about how much the check is for.  Another pass.

Interesting concept, in a 12 hour period once a year all crime is legal.  Unemployment is 1%, crime is non-existent, and everyone is happy.  Until your home is invaded.  Looks good.

 I do not really need to type much here.  One of the best horror movies ever. Re-released for its 40th anniversary and it comes with both versions.  Love that cover of the stairs.  The highest of recommendations.

I loved season 1 of this series and was just so-so on this one.  Jessica Lange is fantastic in this show as season 2 takes on a different story of an asylum and all the creepiness that comes with that.

Great cop thriller from the 90s as Richard Gere is the bad cop and Andy Garcia is the good cop tasked with bringing him down.

THe Horror Lineup

Movie Poster Friday- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2

New Release Tuesday

Disclosure time: I have never seen this Disney classic.  You’d think with girls in the house I would be watching this every other weekend but this title has eluded us somehow.  A trip to Disney World this past summer brought the question, “Do we own this?” and I was surprised we do not so I am glad this is out of the vault.

One of the summer’s big animated flicks and it was met for approval for the ones with shorter loegs around the house.  

Scream Factory brings us the Amityville Horror collection parts 1-3.  If memory serves me correct these were the only ones to play in the theater as there are more sequels that went straight to video.  The first movie was real creepy and had a lot going for it with the prior release of the book.  The second movie served as a prequel and was ok until the second half when it then became an Exorcist ripoff.  I never saw part 3 but 3D was the way to go for a third entry back in the 80s.  

An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. This was based on actual events.  I have been missing John Cusack so I need to check this out.

I cannot stand most of the guys on the cover of this so I seriously doubt this will play at my house.